blockquote — A quotation set off from the main text
blockquote ::=
attribution
?address
anchor
annotation
bibliolist
blockquote
bridgehead
calloutlist
caution
classsynopsis
cmdsynopsis
constraintdef
constructorsynopsis
destructorsynopsis
epigraph
equation
example
fieldsynopsis
figure
formalpara
funcsynopsis
glosslist
html:form
important
indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange)indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular)indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange)informalequation
informalexample
informalfigure
informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable)informaltable
(db.html.informaltable)itemizedlist
literallayout
mediaobject
methodsynopsis
msgset
note
orderedlist
para
procedure
productionset
programlisting
programlistingco
qandaset
remark
revhistory
screen
screenco
screenshot
segmentedlist
sidebar
simpara
simplelist
synopsis
table
(db.cals.table)table
(db.html.table)task
tip
variablelist
warning
Block quotations are set off from the main text, as opposed to occurring inline.
These elements contain blockquote
: annotation
, answer
, appendix
, article
, bibliodiv
, bibliography
, bibliolist
, blockquote
, callout
, calloutlist
, caption
(db.caption), caution
, chapter
, colophon
, constraintdef
, dedication
, entry
, example
, figure
, footnote
, glossary
, glossdef
, glossdiv
, glosslist
, html:fieldset
, html:form
, important
, index
, indexdiv
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, itemizedlist
, legalnotice
, listitem
, msgexplan
, msgtext
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, partintro
, preface
, procedure
, qandadiv
, qandaset
, question
, refsect1
, refsect2
, refsect3
, refsection
, refsynopsisdiv
, revdescription
, sect1
, sect2
, sect3
, sect4
, sect5
, section
, setindex
, sidebar
, simplesect
, step
, taskprerequisites
, taskrelated
, tasksummary
, td
, textobject
, th
, tip
, toc
, tocdiv
, variablelist
, warning
.
The following elements occur in blockquote: address
, anchor
, annotation
, attribution
, bibliolist
, blockquote
, bridgehead
, calloutlist
, caution
, classsynopsis
, cmdsynopsis
, constraintdef
, constructorsynopsis
, destructorsynopsis
, epigraph
, equation
, example
, fieldsynopsis
, figure
, formalpara
, funcsynopsis
, glosslist
, html:form
, important
, indexterm
(db.indexterm.endofrange), indexterm
(db.indexterm.singular), indexterm
(db.indexterm.startofrange), info
(db.titleforbidden.info), info
(db.titleonly.info), informalequation
, informalexample
, informalfigure
, informaltable
(db.cals.informaltable), informaltable
(db.html.informaltable), itemizedlist
, literallayout
, mediaobject
, methodsynopsis
, msgset
, note
, orderedlist
, para
, procedure
, productionset
, programlisting
, programlistingco
, qandaset
, remark
, revhistory
, screen
, screenco
, screenshot
, segmentedlist
, sidebar
, simpara
, simplelist
, synopsis
, table
(db.cals.table), table
(db.html.table), task
, tip
, title
, titleabbrev
, variablelist
, warning
.
<article xmlns='http://docbook.org/ns/docbook'> <title>Example blockquote</title> <blockquote><attribution>Richard Dawkins</attribution> <para>The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference. </para> </blockquote> </article>
The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but pitiless indifference. | ||
--Richard Dawkins |